PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture, 821, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 05, 2024 - September 05, 2024
Page Size: 412 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Alcott, Louisa M.

Little Women

Boston 1880 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 687.50
2 Anderson, Sherwood

Dark Laughter

New York 1925 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Andrews, Robert

Windfall

New York 1931 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
4

SIC Numero composee en memoire de Guillaume Apollinaire

Paris 1919 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
5 Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote

San Francisco 2009; 2010 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
6 Collins, Wilkie

The Moonstone

San Francisco 2012 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
7 Milton, John

Paradise Lost

San Francisco 2002 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 687.50
8 Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass

San Francisco 2014 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,750.00
9 Austen, Jane

Sense & Sensibility

San Francisco 2017 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 500.00
10 Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time

New York 1963 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
11 Baum, L. Frank

Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children

Chicago [1907] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
12 Malory, Sir Thomas

The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All

[London] 1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
13 Apollinaire, Guillaume

Zone

Dublin / London [1972] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
14 Arikha, Avigdor

Samuel Beckett by Avigdor Arikha: A Tribute to Samuel Beckett on His 70th Birthday

London 1976 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
15 Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline and the Bad Hat

New York [1956] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 437.50
16 Benton, Thomas Hart

An Artist in America

New York [1937] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
17

Bifur - Issues 1-8, complete

Paris [1929-31] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 562.50
18 Bowles, Paul and Ira Yeager

2137 Tanger Socco

Berkeley 2011 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,500.00
19

Two books inscribed to Charles Boyer

1923-1933 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
20

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London & Edinburgh [1911] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
21

Collection of literary broadsides

Various places Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
22 Brown, Christy

Background Music

1973 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
23 Wilbur, Richard, compiler

A Bestiary

New York [1955] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
24 Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

New York [1965] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
25 Cather, Willa

Lucy Gayheart

New York 1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
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    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.
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    Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.
    Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
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    Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.
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